Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Forums
« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?  (Read 2325 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline monamiTopic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Nov 2006
  • Posts: 461
    • Show only replies by monami
cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« on: February 01, 2008, 10:59:53 AM »
simple question. can you network an amiga to pc and not just download files from the cdrom drive but use an amiga disk in the pc drive and play a game on the amiga?
Logged
i will bless them that bless you. i will curse them that curse you. gods promise to his chosen people the jews.
 

Offline Chain

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2005
  • Posts: 1324
    • Show only replies by Chain
    • http://chain.3dgrafika.cz/aktivity
Re: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 11:09:49 AM »
you can try ftp filesystem (aminet) but seek in file isnt supported, so it will work just for some games
Logged
too lazy to use shift key properly...
 

Offline orange

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2003
  • Posts: 2799
  • Country: 00
    • Show only replies by orange
Re: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 11:27:09 AM »
you mean with WHDLoad? maybe.. try smbfs.
IIRC, many say you need to shutdown TCP for it to work, but I had not seen any problems with AmiTCP+Whdload.

BTW, I successfully ran 'Rogger Rabbit' from PC HDD on A500 networked with PC2Amiga. but it was sloooow, and its probably 'system friendly' game.
Logged
“Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.”
 

Offline orange

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2003
  • Posts: 2799
  • Country: 00
    • Show only replies by orange
Re: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 04:56:02 PM »
I have just tested it and it works great with smbfs!

of course its a bit slower than HDD.
I used the PRELOAD option, just in case.

The games that work: SuperCars 2 (JST), Superfrog (WhdLoad), Arkanoid2 (WhdLoad)

there are some minor problems, I couldn't get icon on workbench for smbfs drive (I think there is an option for this) and the files cant have executable flag set.
Logged
“Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.”
 

Offline Trev

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2003
  • Posts: 1550
  • Country: 00
    • Show only replies by Trev
Re: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 05:30:24 PM »
Windows has no support for Rock Ridge or its Amiga extensions, which is why you'll be missing attributes, comments, and most likely case-correctness, if the disc does not also use Joliet. (CIFS/SMB lacks extensions for the extra attributes as well.)

Amiga OS needs ATA over Ethernet (or iSCSI, but AoE is a lot easier to implement, since you don't need an IP stack).
Logged
 

Offline da9000

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2005
  • Posts: 922
    • Show only replies by da9000
Re: cd rom gameplay over ethernet?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2008, 10:39:46 AM »
Quote

Trev wrote:
Amiga OS needs ATA over Ethernet (or iSCSI, but AoE is a lot easier to implement, since you don't need an IP stack).


What do you mean (by the "needs" part), Trev?
Logged
 
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »